What was your first impression of Piazza Navona? Wow – just wow. This huge, lively square is anchored by one of Rome's most impressive Baroque masterpieces: Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. Why ...

This is the fifth article in a seven-part Lenten series on the station churches of Rome. Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V. We are near the end of Lent, that limbo in which enthusiasm dims, ...

I needn't have worried about the house part. Instead of living in a hotel room for our three weeks in Rome -- cramped, inconvenient and enormously expensive -- we rented Casa Navona, an apartment in ...